The many friends of Mrs. Charles R. Jackson were saddened to learn of her death shortly before noon Wednesday of this week in the Comanche County Hospital, where she had been a patient for several weeks. She had been in failing health several years.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon of this week at 2:30 in the Presbyterian church in this city and will be in charge of Rev. Major W. Parker of Ashland, assisted by Rev. William A. Hawes, pastor of the Antioch Methodist church.

Singer is Mrs. Ross Beeley, whose solo will be "In the Garden" with Mrs. Frances Gregg as organist.

Pallbearers are John McMoran, Vernon Huck, Ernest Oller, Muriel Gregg, Charles Gregg and Denton Frazier. Interment will be in Crown Hill cemetery east of Coldwater.

Obituary

Grace Irene Nokes (Jackson) a daughter of Sidney and Martha Nokes, was born in Whitehorse, Okla., on January 8, 1904, and passed away September 23, 1959, in the Comanche County Hospital at the age of 55 years, 8 months and 21 days. The family moved to Coldwater in 1906. She attended the Coldwater grade and high schools and was a graduated in 1923. She attended Hays and Emporia State Colleges, later teaching school in the Tin Top District and also in the Coldwater grade school.

She was united in marriage June 23, 1927, with Charles R. Jackson in the Wilmore Methodist church. To this union two daughters were born, Charlene and Eleanor. Grace was united with the Presbyterian church of Coldwater on March 14, 1915. She later became an active 4-H leader in her community and a member of the Coldwater Chapter No. 224 Order of Eastern Star.

Preceding her in death were her mother and father. She is survived by her husband, Charles, and daughters, Mrs. Charles Wood, of Anthony, Kans., and Mrs. Eleanor Haun of Coldwater; two sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Oller of Wichita, Kans., and Mrs. Luella Rody, Little Rock, Ark.; three brothers, Ross and Fred Nokes of Salinas, Calif., and Milton of Coldwater; three grandchildren, Andrea and Charles Haun of Coldwater and Mark Wood of Anthony; also numerous relatives and friends. She was always cheerful and brave in her long illness. She was a good wife, mother and friend.

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I cannot say, and I will not say
That she is dead. - She is just away!
With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand,
She has wandered into an unknown land.
And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be since she lingers there.
And you - O you, who the wildest yearn
For the old time step and the glad return.
Think of her faring on, as dear
In the love of There as the love of Here;
Think of her still as the same, I say:
She is not dead, she is just away!

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